English - Chapter 75 - Al-Qiyamah

I CALL TO WITNESS the Day of Resurrection

And I call the reprehensive soul to witness

Does man think We shall not put his bones together

Surely We are able to reform even his finger-tips

Yet man is sceptical of what is right before him

He asks: "When will the Day of Resurrection be

Yet when the eyes are dazzled

The moon eclipsed

And the sun and moon are conjoined

That day man will say: "Where can I find escape

Never so, for there will be no escape

With your Lord alone will be the retreat on that day

Then man will be told what he had sent ahead (of good) and what he had left behind

In fact man is a witness against himself

Whatever the excuses he may offer

Do not forestall (the revelation before its completion) by acting in haste

Surely its collection and recitation are Our responsibility

So, as We recite it, follow its reading

The exposition of its meaning surely rests on Us

But no. You love this transient life

And neglect the Hereafter

How many faces will be refulgent on that Day

Waiting for their Lord

And how many faces on that Day will be woe-begone

Fearing that a great disaster is going to befall them

Never so, for when life withdraws into the clavicula

And it is asked: "Is there any reciter of charms and amulets

He will then realise it is the parting

And anguish will be heaped upon anguish

To your Lord then will be the driving

For he neither believed nor prayed

But only disavowed and turned away

Then he strutted back to his people

Alas the woe for you, alas

Alas, the woe for you

Does man think that he will be left alone to himself, free

Was he not an emitted drop of semen

Then formed into an embryo? Then He fashioned, shaped and proportioned

And assigned it sexes, male and female

Cannot such as He bring the dead to life